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Publisher Team17 is throwing away its recently-built indie reputation
In 1994, Andy Davidson had an idea. That idea was to take the infinitely copied mid-70s Tektronix 4051 game, Artillery, but do it with cartoon worms. Then-developer Team17 snapped it up, called it Worms, and have since wrung out every last drop of miserable profit from the mediocre idea ever since. So of course they’re making Worms NFTs.
Team17 is today announcing an end to the MetaWorms NFT project.
— Team17 (@Team17) February 1, 2022
We have listened to our Teamsters, development partners, and our games’ communities, and the concerns they’ve expressed, and have therefore taken the decision to step back from the NFT space.
Original story follows.
NFTs are a very popular racket in which people “sell” infinitely reproducible jpegs of badly drawn cartoons to the rich and gullible, and use blockchain technology so they’re also ruinous for the environment! Team17 joins the ever-growing throngs of video game publishers who’ll have some really awkward explaining to do when their grandchildren ask what it was like when there were trees. It’s very excited to announce MetaWorms, “unique” Worms-like pieces of art sold via Reality Gaming Group.
What’s that, naive person who still has hope? You think this means artists working at Team17 will create unique and delightful pieces of Worms art, then sell a unique print for excited customers to frame and hang on their wall?! No, silly! That’s what’s currently happening on the alternative-Earth, where everything isn’t [sweeping arm gesture].
Read the full article on Kotaku
